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Biography

Profile

  • Name: Satoshi Tanaka

Work Experience

  • Aug. 2025 - Freelance engineer
  • Apr. 2020 - Jul. 2025, TIER IV, Inc.
    • Jun. 2024 - Jul. 2025 Lead Software Engineer for MLOps in perception module
    • Apr. 2020 - Dec. 2023 Software Engineer for Autonomous Driving
  • Internship
    • Apr. 2018 - Apr. 2019, Internship at Preferred Networks, Inc. as a part-time engineer
    • Aug. 2017 - Mar. 2018, Internship at Hitachi, Ltd as a research assistant

Academic Background

  • Master’s Degree in Information Science and Engineering, the University of Tokyo
    • Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020, Ishikawa Senoo Lab, Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Precision Engineering, the University of Tokyo
    • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018, Kotani Lab, Research Center for Advanced Sceience and Technology
    • Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2018, Dept. of Precison Engineering
    • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016, Faculty of Liberal Arts

Interest

  • Robotics, Computer Vision, Control Theory
  • Building autonomous robotic systems that can interact with the physical world faster and more dexterously than humans
    • Real-time 3D object detection
    • Development of mechanisms capable of fast and compliant motion
    • Force control for dynamic manipulation

Publication

International Conference (First author)

  • Satoshi Tanaka, Keisuke Koyama, Taku Senoo, Makoto Shimojo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa, High-speed Hitting Grasping with Magripper, a Highly Backdrivable Gripper using Magnetic Gear and Plastic Deformation Control, 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2020), Proceedings, pp. 9137 - 9143. [2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Joint Chapter Young Award]
  • Satoshi Tanaka, Keisuke Koyama, Taku Senoo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa, Adaptive Visual Shock Absorber with Visual-based Maxwell Model Using Magnetic Gear, The 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2020), Proceedings, pp. 6163-6168.
  • Satoshi Tanaka, Taku Senoo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa, Non-Stop Handover of Parcel to Airborne UAV Based on High-Speed Visual Object Tracking, 2019 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR2019), Proceedings, pp. 414-419.
  • Satoshi Tanaka, Taku Senoo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa, High-speed UAV Delivery System with Non-Stop Parcel Handover Using High-speed Visual Control, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC19), Proceedings, pp. 4449-4455.

ArXiv papers (First author)

  • Satoshi Tanaka, Koji Minoda, Fumiya Watanabe, Takamasa Horibe, Rethink 3D Object Detection from Physical World, arXiv 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00190.
  • Satoshi Tanaka, Samrat Thapa, Kok Seang Tan, Amadeusz Szymko, Lobos Kenzo, Koji Minoda, Shintaro Tomie, Kotaro Uetake, Guolong Zhang, Isamu Yamashita, Takamasa Horibe, AWML: An Open-Source ML-based Robotics Perception Framework to Deploy for ROS-based Autonomous Driving Software, arXiv 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00645.

International Conference (Not first author)

  • Taisei Fujimoto, Satoshi Tanaka, and Shinpei Kato, LaneFusion: 3D Object Detection with Rasterized Lane Map, the 2022 33rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2022), Proceedings, pp. 396-403.

Other publication

  • Kazunari Kawabata, Manato Hirabayashi, David Wong, Satoshi Tanaka, Akihito Ohsato AD perception and applications using automotive HDR cameras, the 4th Autoware workshop at the 2022 33rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2022)

Award, Scholarship

Projects

(Research) Rethink 3D Object Detection from Physical World

AWML

DepthAnything-ROS



(Research) High-speed Hitting Grasping with Magripper

  • Developed high-speed hitting grasping executed seamlessly from reaching with Magripper, a highly backdrivable gripper, and hitting grasping, high-speed grasping framework.
  • Accepted at IROS2020 [2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Joint Chapter Young Award]

(Research) Adaptive Visual Shock Absorber with Magslider

  • Developed visual shock absorber system with high-speed vision, high-backdrivablilty hardware, and force control.
  • Accepted at ICRA2020

(Research) High-speed supply station for UAV delivery system

  • Developed high-speed supply station for UAV delivery system
  • Accepted at ITSC2019


Robotic Competition

  • Team Leader for ABU Robocon2016
  • Winner of National Championships, 2nd-runnerup of ABU Robocon, ABU Robocon award.
  • Visited to the prime minister’s residence as the team leader of representation from Japan team. Reported by link and link.

Other projects

Latest change (blog, survey)

mmcarrot
Summary Repository: https://github.com/scepter914/mmcarrot Made useful tools for MMlab libraries Made 3D visualization of mmdetection3d with rerun.io 3D visualization Made 3D visualization of mmdetection3d with rerun.io
2024/08/17 · Projects
3D Small Object Detection with Dynamic Spatial Pruning (ECCV2024)
3D Small Object Detection with Dynamic Spatial Pruning (ECCV2024) Summary https://xuxw98.github.io/DSPDet3D/ PruningしながらFPNする機構を備えたsmall object 3D detection real-time object detectionも考慮 https://github.com/xuxw98/DSPDet3D mmdet base https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq-cIRnKhw0 Method Pruning 全体 Experiment Discussion
2024/08/12 · Surveys
Find n’ Propagate: Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Detection in Urban Environments (arxiv 2024/03, ECCV2024)
Find n’ Propagate: Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Detection in Urban Environments (arxiv 2024/03, ECCV2024) Summary Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Detection https://github.com/djamahl99/findnpropagate contribute 2D VLM を用いたfrustum base手法 Greedy Box Seeker frustumからsegmentしてspaceをsea
2024/08/12 · Surveys
Injecting Planning-Awareness into Prediction and Detection Evaluation (IV2022)
Injecting Planning-Awareness into Prediction and Detection Evaluation (IV2022) Summary https://github.com/BorisIvanovic/PlanningAwareEvaluation Detectionとforecastingに使えるPI-metricsの提案 Method 他の手法 task-aware evaluation metrics be: Able to capture asymmetries in downstream tasks. Method-agnostic. Computationally feasible to compute. Interpretable
2024/08/12 · Surveys
Soft Robotics Commercialization: Jamming Grippers from Research to Product (Soft robotics 2016)
Summary ドラえもんハンドのproduct化で大変だったことまとめ集 ソフトロボティクスを事業化しようとするなら必読 動画 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJyICIp4t4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0Y2fDZ8Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHSAUEzjn4 Background これまでの世界にimp
2024/08/12 · Surveys
Weakly Supervised 3D Object Detection via Multi-Level Visual Guidance (ECCV2024)
Weakly Supervised 3D Object Detection via Multi-Level Visual Guidance (ECCV2024) Summary from google 2D labelだけで3D detectionをするframeworkの提案 画像の特徴量を3D側に伝える工夫 https://github.com/kuanchihhuang/VG-W3D Method Background 3D Object Detection
2024/08/12 · Surveys
What data do we need for training an AV motion planner? (ICRA2021)
What data do we need for training an AV motion planner? (ICRA2021) Summary from Lyft どういうperceptionのobjectが影響しているのかを解析した論文 Method data種類 Range and field-of-view Geometric accuracy Addressing domain shift Experiment data fine
2024/08/12 · Surveys
Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data (arxiv 2024/01)
Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data (arxiv 2024/01) Summary https://github.com/LiheYoung/Depth-Anything link https://huggingface.co/spaces/LiheYoung/Depth-Anything/tree/main model https://github.com/spacewalk01/depth-anything-tensorrt TensorRT実装 from TikTok 汎用性のある Zero-shot monocular relative depth estimation 基盤model + Unsupervisedな学習の手法を取り入
2024/08/11 · Surveys
Exploring Object-Centric Temporal Modeling for Efficient Multi-View 3D Object Detection (ECCV2023)
Exploring Object-Centric Temporal Modeling for Efficient Multi-View 3D Object Detection (ECCV2023) Summary Multi-Camera 3D detection 実行速度も早く、multi-Camera 3D detection の中だと今一番強いまである https://github.com/exiawsh/StreamPETR/ https://github.com/NVIDIA/DL4AGX/tree/master/AV-Solutions/streampetr-trt TensorRT実装もある Method Experiment RTX3090 で動
2024/08/11 · Surveys
MixSup: Mixed-grained Supervision for Label-efficient LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection (ICLR2024)
MixSup: Mixed-grained Supervision for Label-efficient LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection (ICLR2024) Summary MixSupを使ったsemantic point clustersの利用 + PointSAM(3D Panoptic segmentation)使ったpseudo label による
2024/08/11 · Surveys